[Coco] RadioShack remembers the CoCo (on Google+)

[Steve Bjork]

Yes, Color BASIC was a one lump sum paid by Tandy.  But both Extended 
and Disk Basic was licensed on a per ROM bases.

The license fee was fairly low compared the over cost of the early 
ROMs.  By the time of the CoCo 3, the license fee for Extended Basic was 
the highest cost item in the system.  Even the GIME cost less than the 
License fee.

Understanding these costs, it's little wonder that Microware and not 
Microsoft wrote the patch to create Super Extended Color Basic of the 
CoCo 3.

Steve

On 12/7/2013 5:07 PM, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> The Books I have read on Microsoft state that originally Tandy Paid a lump sum for Basic for the TRS 80 (model 1), But I wonder if that applied to Extended Color Basic, or if by this time Microsoft had implemented the Licensing scheme.
> If so, this could have been the cost of manual, ROM and Microsoft tax, plus a small Profit for Tandy.
>